Ever wanted to stream prerecorded music or a live event, such as a lecture or
concert for an internet audience? With Icecast and Liquidsoap, you can set up a
full-featured, flexible internet radio station using free software and open
standards. more>>

Anyone who reads Linux Journal knows about my fascination with
birdwatching. I've created my own weatherproof video cameras with
a Raspberry Pi. I've posted instructions on how to create your own
automatically updating camera image page with JavaScript. Heck, I even
learned CSS so I could make a mobile-friendly version of BirdCam that
filled the screen in landscape mode.
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For years I've been jealous of folks with iOS devices who could just send
their phone screens to their Apple TV devices. It seems like the Android
screen-mirroring protocols never work right for me. My Sony Xperia has
multiple types of screen mirroring, and none of them seem to work on my
smart TVs or Roku devices.
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The motto "open to anything" underpins Nativ's development philosophy
on all of its audio solutions, including its new Nativ Vita, "the world's
first High-Resolution Music Player" and touchscreen control center that is
designed to function as the central access point for one's entire music
collection.
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The most basic cable package from Charter (Spectrum?) costs me more than $70
per month, and that's without any equipment other than a single cable
card. It's very clear why people have been cutting the cord with cable
TV companies. But, what options exist? Do the alternatives
actually cost less? Are the alternatives as good? more>>

People's phones and all of the various sensors that may be built in to them
is a
source of scientific data logging that almost everyone carries around.
Although the selection of sensors varies from phone to phone,
they almost all have a camera. In this article, I take a
look at a piece of software called Tracker that can be used to analyze
videos you take of experiments.
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People who study the history of languages probably will look back at our
current time and scratch their heads. We keep inventing verbs! First,
Google became the verb we use for searching. Then, "Facebooking" someone
became a viable way to contact them. Heck, I forgot about "texting"
someone. It seems we just keep taking perfectly good nouns and making
them verbs. more>>

I listen to a lot of books. A lot. And honestly, although I've written about
the "Listen" app for audiobooks, I tend to use Audible more than anything
else anymore. Part of the reason is the Android app finally has more
fine-grained speed settings. (I prefer around 1.4x speed.) iPhone people
don't have that seemingly simple feature. Just saying.
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I listen to a lot of audiobooks. They're not the sort of thing you blast
from your car speakers, because invariably when you pull up to a drive-thru window, it's at an awkward part of the book. Thankfully I don't
read many books with sex scenes, but it's a bit embarrassing when it's a
super-cheesy-sounding part of the book that plays while you're paying. But,
I digress.
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I like Pandora. I like it because it doesn't require me to know anything
other than whether I like the current song. I'm sure other music
services offer more features or a larger catalog, but Pandora is
simple. So am I.
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Telco TV/OTT and IPTV operators must deal with the fact that many IP
transport streams are asynchronous. This makes the streams prone to poor
video quality due to jitter if they are sent to Program Clock Reference
(PCR)-compliant devices. more>>

If you read my articles on when I originally set up BirdCam a few years ago, you'll
remember I did it with compatibility in mind. At the time of this writing, BirdCam
is simply an HTML page with
the JavaScript
language to refresh the images constantly, in order to create a low-fps
video stream of sorts. more>>